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Mass
$19.95Add to cart“The Eucharistic celebration is ‘the center of the Christian community,’ ‘the source and summit of the Christian life,’ or further, ‘the center and culmination of the entire life of the Christian community.’ Root, source, center, summit: the Eucharistic celebration is at the heart of our faith and our life. To study it is to look at its own heart. That is where we meet Jesus Christ, present in his Word, present in the Eucharist, present in the celebrating community.”
From these words of introduction to his concluding remarks, Father Deiss offers an explanation of the post-Vatican II Mass that is as remarkable for its simplicity as it is for its thoroughness. He examines the structure of the celebration as revealed by Vatican II, a structure that, in his words, appears now “simpler, more luminous, more beautiful” than ever before.
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Learning Conversational Prayer
$9.95Add to cartThe very idea of praying personal petitions aloud in front of others makes many people uncomfortable. Yet those who have overcome their fears and tried this form of prayer are quick to express how rewarding they find it.
Rosalind Rinker has refined this form of shared-prayer, having practiced, lectured, and written about it for more than twenty-five years. She explains what it is and how, with the help of the Holy Spirit, it can lead to a new and more meaningful prayer life within a group, within your family, or in your own private devotion.
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God Is Green
$15.00Add to cartIn God Is Green, Ian Bradley recovers the green heart of Christianity–a God who clothes wildflowers in splendor; reminds Job of his humble part in the cosmic drama; and sends a Cosmic Christ to ennoble and perfect all of creation.Bradley begins with the charges against Christianity–its alleged arrogance toward nature and glorification of man at the expense of the earth–and rebuts them. He accepts that Christians have been dismissive toward nature through the centuries, but he argues that this neglect has been a perversion of the Christian message.By plumbing the Bible, the writings of the early Christians and of the Celtic Christian Church, and the testimony of mystics through the ages, Bradley shows that a sacred world is at the heart of Christian belief. He even argues that of all world religions, Christianity has the greatest claim to be environmentalist because it professes that God is incarnate in the very stuff of nature.God is Green is a simple and compelling explanation for why Christians should be environmentalists.
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Queen Of Prophets
$15.00Add to cartThe Communist bloc has collapsed. Factional strife is on the rise. The West faces an uncertain future. What is the message of Mary, the Mother of Jesus, for these times?
To find an answer, Dudley Plunkett explores the mystery of Mary’s recent apparitions in Medjugorje. Since 1981 millions from around thde world have traveled to the tiny Yugoslavian mountain village, believing Mary to be appearing there to a group of teenagers. Plunkett, after his own pilgrimage there, has come to bleve it as well
Many book have reported on the apparitions. Queen of Prophets pushes the discussion forward: How can these apparitions be understood in light of the Bible and of the Christian traditions of the East and the West? What do the messages of Mary, her pleas for peace, prayer, and simplicity, mean to a rapidly changing world?
With great clarity Plunkett builds a bridge between the consoling and challenging message of the apparitions and the concerns of everyday life. This is a book for these times.
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Passion Of Jesus In The Gospel Of Mark
$24.95Add to cartWhich came first: a coherent Passion story or the Gospel of Mark? Contemporary biblical scholarship is divided over this issue of how, exactly, the Passion story developed.
Whatever the shape of the story prior to Mark, it must have been imprinted with Christian experience as well as historical memory. Mark, in turn, felt free to retell and reinterpret that story for his own time and place. The Passion of Jesus was not only a story from the past but also, in the sufferings and hopes of the Christians of Mark’s time, a living reality of the present.
The readers of this insightful work will find that the Passion of Jesus as told by Mark continues to hold meaning for the present.
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7 Last Words Of Christ
$8.99Add to cartSeven times Jesus spoke from the cross, and each of those seven last words still speaks to us today. Judith Mattison reminds us that the death of Christ is the clearest expression of God’s redeeming love for us. The cross, once a sign of defeat and shame, has become a sign of victory over sin and death. The author’s meditations on each of Jesus’ seven last words are accompanied by hymns and poetry that enlarge the possible meanings of each word, and by questions for reflection or discussion. Filled with messages of grace and love, this book is ideal for devotional reading and group study, or for use as a preaching resource.
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Called To Jerusalem Sent To The World Cycle A
$21.95Add to cartIn the broken places of our lives, when hope is lost and courage falters … in that moment God comes to those who will listen. Always he meets us in our desolation, offering us an alternative to our defeat. (from the sermon “A Chance To Live Again”
The 17 sermons in this book are based on First Lesson texts, from six Old Testament books and the book of Acts. They follow the Revised Common Lectionary.
“In a culture increasingly driven to receive more than it gives, self-sacrifice is less and less popular,” writes Theodore F. Schneider. “We want much, but we are willing to risk little…. We are called to join with God for good, taking the risks, carrying the cross.”
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Preparation And Manifestation Cycle A
$16.95Add to cartThere really is good new! God is still eager to save. Prepare yourself for his coming into your life. He is already present. It is all here; the secret to the good and happy life is already manifest and present. (from the sermon “We Must Be Blind!”)
The 21 sermons in this book are based on Gospel texts, primarily from Matthew and John. Sermons follow the Revised Common, Lutheran, and Roman Catholic lectionaries.
In his messages, Mark Ellingsen connects preparation through penitence and the new life given in baptism. “The gospel lessons assigned for the season provide excellent occasions to practice such liturgical proclamation,” writes Ellingsen. “Penitence and preparation happen in the presence of Christ and the new life he gives. Thus they are Gods work.”
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Come And See Cycle C
$12.95Add to cartAs a Cycle C Lenten-based resource, Come And See provides many opportunities for congregations.
It offers a pre-Lenten Mission Fair, which may be held during the second Sunday of Epiphany. The Fair is an invitation to deeper discipleship during Lent.
It offers mid-week Lenten programs. These are playlets and inductive Bible studies. Each playlet has parts for three adults. Each Bible study follows Scriptures from Mark with helpful study questions. Playlets and Bible studies focus on evangelism worship, education, social concerns and stewardship.
It offers six sermons to be used for Ash Wednesday and the five Sundays of Lent.
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Grace Words From The Cross
$12.95Add to cart“Father, forgive them; for they know not what they are doing.” –Luke 23:34
As in Luke 23:34, John R. Brokhoff offers “words of grace” in this series of sermons for Lent, Holy Week, or Good Friday. The messages are based on passages from Luke, John, and Matthew.
This book offers four options: as a series of six messages for Lent and one for Holy Week; a series of sermons for each day of Holy Week; a three-hour Good Friday service; for personal meditation and reflection.
Themes are:
The first word — mercy.
The second word — promise.
The third word — concern.
The fourth word — fidelity.
The fifth word — need.
The sixth word — completion.
The seventh word — commitment.Scriptures are from, the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible.
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Spiritual Meadow Of John Moschos
$39.95Add to cart‘I have plucked the finest flowers of the unmown meadow and worked them into a row which I now offer to you’, wrote John Moschos as he began his tales of the holy men of seventh-century Palestine and Egypt. This translation offers readers contemporary insights into the spirituality of the desert.
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Jerome Nadal 1507-1580
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Jerome Nadal’s influence on the development and growth of the early Society of Jesus is second only to that of its founder, Ignatius Loyola. As Loyola’s vicar, Nadal visited Jesuit houses throughout Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Austria, and the Low Countries. At each community, he explained the ways of the Society of Jesus, shared his understanding of Ignatius and his teachings, and promulgated the Society’s Constitutions. Although historians have long recognized Nadal’s importance for the Society’s spirituality and history, there has not been a biography published in the English language until this one. Using the volumes of letters and writings published by the Jesuit Historical Institute in Rome, and monographs in other languages, Bangert gives a vivid portrait of an important and controversial figure. -
Rule Of Saint Benedict
$13.95Add to cartWritten some fifteen centuries ago The Rule of St Benedict is still read and studied by thousands of men and women throughout the world. In recent years more and more lay people have turned to the Rule and have found within its pages a deep and practical spirituality which is helpful to them in coping with the problems and challenges they meet in their everyday lives. This new edition of the classic Parry translation of the Rule has been prepared for a general audience and comes complete with an introduction by Esther de Waal that offers a commentary both on the underlying themes of the Rule and on the contents of specific chapters. In addition the notes and references from the previous edition have been retained, and the text has been set in large and readable type. Abbot Parry OSB was for many years the Abbot of St Augustine’s Abbey Ramsgate, and the author of Households of God which included both his translation of the Rule and an invaluable commentary.
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Life Of Beatrice Of Nazareth
$39.95Add to cartThe life and mystical experiences of an intelligent and artistic thirteenth-century flemish nun are described in this contemporary biography, drawn from a lost autobiography. Her own Seven Manieren van Minne is incorporated into the text and given in translation from two redactions: the Latin of her biographer and her own vernacular.
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Christian Vision Of Humanity
$19.95Add to cartWhere do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? How can we get there? These are the basic religious questions that we all ask amid the possibilities and limitations of life, it successes and failures, its blessings and tragedies. Christian faith has a particular vision of God, the world, and of humanity, a vision that issues from the person and ministry of Jesus Christ. He is the reason why Christians are convinced our lives do make sense, that we and our world are created in love and for love and that we are destined to find final healing and fulfillment together by sharing in God’s own devine life.
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God Of Life
$28.00Add to cartMy desire is that this book may help readers to know more fully the God of biblical revelation and, as a result, to proclaim God as the God of life.” Who is God? Where is God? How are we to speak of God? Gutierrez looks at these classic questions through a review of the Bible, and his answers challenge all Christians to a deepening of faith.
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Keys Of This Blood
$41.99Add to cartContents
734 Pages In 36 Chapters
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Only Malachi Martin, consummate Vatican insider and intelligence expert, could reveal the untold story behind the Vatican’s role in today’s winner-take-all race against time to establish, maintain, and control the first one-world government.
*Will America lead the way to the new world order?
*Is Pope John Paul II winning the battle for faith?
*Is the breakup of the Soviet empire masking Gorbachev’s worldwide agenda?The Keys of This Blood is a book of stunning geopolitical revelations. It presents a compelling array of daring blueprints for global power, and one of them is the portrait of the future.
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Early Will I Seek You
$16.00Add to cartWritings that touch the pure-flaming heart of God-from the men and women who walked with Him through the ages guiding into a deeper friendship with the “Father of Lights.”
How can I know God? How can I find His purpose for me, in all of life’s tangled ways? How do I break through to Him in prayer, when my way seems blocked? These pressing questions, common to so many, sent Augustine on his own spiritual journey toward the heart of God. The secret joys he found along the way can be yours as you walk the trail he blazed in spirit.
Among the best-loved of all Christian expositors, Augustine (354-430 A.D.) struggled to find the true path to God, amid heresy and threats of persecution and destruction. Yet in all his works there shines a heart set on one goal-to become a friend to God, and Him alone. His written words, treasured for centuries, are footprints to be followed to the kind of life that finds God. Ever present. Strong. Life-changing. And loving at all times.
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Anthology Of Christian Mysticism
$59.95Add to cartOffers an excellent selection of texts from 55 significant figures in the mystical tradition from Origen to Karl Rahner. Each group of texts is preceded by introductions that are informative and reliable. “Very reader-friendly,”—Theological Studies. For the classroom or self-study.
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Targums Of Job Proverbs And Qohelet
$99.95Add to cartThe Targum of Job is regarded as one of the most enigmatic of targums. The translation used is based on the Cambridge University MS Ee. 5.9, widely regarded as the most important of known manuscripts. This manuscript is followed as closely as possible, including the marginal readings and the Variant Targum[s] incorporated in the text.
The primary aim of the Proverbs Targum is to provide an English translation, none having yet been published. A secondary aim is to give an account of the relationship of this targum to the Hebrew text and the other ancient versions, especially the Syriac.
Targum Qohelet is a blend of literal translation and midrashic paraphrase. The purpose is didactic, seeking to convey the meaning which is implicit in the text. Thus Qohelet becomes a vehicle to emphasize the importance of Torah study, repentance, prayer, and charity.
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Saint Joseph Baltimore Catechisms (Revised)
$8.50Add to cart22 Chapters
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THINK – how much Our Lord must have loved me to
suffer those nails, those thorns, those bleeding wounds,
such humiliations, such heartbreak. Think about this for
at least a minute.
New and modern format and design
Explains Catholic doctrine with the aid of many exclusive features.
Combines modern outlook and language with a solid time-tested exposition of the teaching of the Church. -
Origins Of The Liturgical Year (Reprinted)
$39.95Add to cartSecond Emended Edition
In this definitive work, Thomas Talley draws on all the resources of historical scholarship to examine and unravel the complications brought to liturgical time by the blending of local traditions.
Liturgical time, like all ecclesiastical structures, has interacted with other traditions since the early centuries. Yet Doctor Talley found that the gospel tradition and its liturgical employment shaped the period that comprises the liturgical year.
His findings illustrate for the reader that every festival the Church celebrates-very Sunday-is centered primarily and finally in the Eucharist, which from the beginning and always proclaims the Lord’s death until he comes.
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Passion Of Jesus In The Gospel Of John
$24.95Add to cartWith this volume on John the Passion series concludes its study of the meaning of Jesus’ death in each of the Gospels. But though last, it is certainly not less important or a repetition of the other Gospels. In fact, John’s portrayal of the death is as distinctive and unique as the rest of this “maverick” Gospel.
Father Senior explores how the rest of the Gospel prepares for the Passion story. He then gives a detailed analysis of the Passion narrative itself. Finally, he explores the theological motifs that dominate the Passion narrative. With scholarly finesse and deep pastoral awareness, he makes John’s vibrant message of the Passion speak to our life and times.
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Journey Of Decision
$7.95Add to cartThis Way of the Cross combines the traditional with the innovative. As a traditional presentation, the Stations of the Cross are followed around the church and the usual prayers are said and songs are sung. But where appropriate, the Way of the Cross can be presented in tableaus by students or actors in the sanctuary. In the second presentation, each station highlights a particular character who, in monologue style, responds to the question, “Were you there?”
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Risen Christ In Eastertime
$16.95Add to cartRather than focusing on the differences between the evangelists’ accounts of the resurrection, Father Brown instead concentrates on how each treatment of the resurrection fits the theology and plan of its Gospel. Those people who afford the Church’s liturgical calendar a major role in their spiritual life will appreciate the added meaning Father Brown infuses into these stories that dwell at the heart of our faith.
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Targum Neofiti 1 Genesis
$99.95Add to cartBeginning with an introduction of the “Palestinian Targums,” or “Targum Yerushalmi,” the author relates the history of the term, research in the field, and other background information on the Palestinian Pentateuch Targums before providing a verse-by-verse translation of Neofiti 1.
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Book Of Irish American Blessings And Prayers
$14.95Add to cartIf you like Irish American literature, history, or culture, then you are sure to like Irish American Blessings and Prayers. Intrigued by Irish blessings, Andrew Greeley has tried his hand at writing Irish-American blessings and has bound them together in this unique book. In the second half of this work, you will find personal prayers, written for each day. The prayers are written with the Roman Liturgy in mind, with clarity and brevity. 207 pages, from ThomasMore.
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Greatest Wonder Of All Cycle C
$14.95Add to cartohn Braaten takes biblical passages from the Lent and Easter season and weaves them into messages for today’s Christians. This book of sermons follows Common, Lutheran, and Roman Catholic Lectionaries. The 17 messages include texts from Matthew, Luke, and John.
Sermon titles include:
The Pitfalls Of Practicing Piety — Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21
Our Christian I.D. — Luke 4:1-13
The King Who Came To Die — John 19:16b-22
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Struggle To Be The Sun Again
$24.00Add to cartWhat are the distinctive theological challenges of Asian women to theology and the church? Struggle To Be the Sun Again offers answers to this crucial question as it articulates the specific contribution of emerging Asian women’s theology to the meaning of the gospel.
Chung begins by examining the historical and social contexts of Asian women’s theology and their reflections on humanity. She then explores specific manifestations of these theologies in Christology, in Mariology, in spirituality. Chung concludes by analyzing the contribution of Asian women’s theology to contemporary theology, and its future.
Struggle To Be the Sun Again provides a fine, readable introduction to emerging feminist theologies from Asia. It is an ideal text for classes in Asian, feminist, liberation, and third world theologies. -
Signs Words And Gestures
$16.95Add to cartThe substance underlying ordinary signs, words, and gestures in the liturgy is the theme of this collection of simple homilies offered to nurture Christians on their pilgrimage toward piety and spiritual life.
Through these texts every reader will rediscover additional strength in the elementary religious practices memorized during childhood. For the homilist, the traditional symbols and texts of worship are viewed with a fresh scrutiny. A separate section of homilies for children is included.
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Church Community Of Salvation
$29.95Add to cartEcclesiology is now taken for granted as an area of theological research. Before the modern age, however, the Church felt no need to define itself. What Father Tavard presents in this work is a systematic organization of the essential Christian beliefs about what the Church has been, is, and ought to be. It focuses on the awareness of “being” Church that is inseparable from the profession of the Christian faith. Keeping the present historical moment in mind, Tavard investigates the dogmatic or doctrinal nature and structure of the Church in an ecumenical spirit.
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Miracle Hour : A Method Of Prayer That Will Change Your Life
$5.99Add to cartMiracle Hour: A Method of Prayer that Will Change Your Life has helped over one million people in over 25 countries to pray. Spending just 5 minutes on one or more of the 12 sections, such as praise, thanksgiving, surrender, repentance, or forgiveness, with an attitude of openness and expectancy can be a time of deeper consecration and growth in understanding the ways of God. Miracle Hour is a very balanced and effective approach to prayer, not only for beginners but also for those in a mature walk with the Lord who struggle with their prayer time.
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Triune God Of Christian Faith
$21.95Add to cartAlthough the triune God is the heart of our faith, not much scholarship exists in recent years regarding it. The very depth of the mystery itself inclines us to silence. Also, feminist critiques of male symbols and language about the Trinity make it easier to say nothing.
This small volume takes a first step toward answering the need for contemporary scholarship on the Trinity. It “opens readers to the meaning of the triune God for our concrete human lives, and in giving a taste of the vast riches of this God, to make the reader hunger for more.”
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40 Gospel Homilies
$39.95Add to cartAt the dividing line between Antiquity and the Middle Ages, scholar-diplomat-pastor-writer-pope Gregory the Great drew on his profound knowledge of Scripture and his personal experience to preach the Gospel. These forty homilies show the practical concerns Gregory faced as well as the theological expectations he had of his flock.
